Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
MITSUBA Corporation has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The portfolio reaches 7 distinct examiners and 3 art units, creating a broad examination footprint across related electronics and optics technology.
VO, ETHAN NGUYEN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should account for both cross-case consistency and the different examination contexts created by the three art-unit assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | 2 | 78.8% | +10.2% |
| TRUONG, THOMAS | 1 | 73.5% | +15.8% |
| SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 1 | 76.8% | +30.1% |
| CARTER, MONICA SMITH | 1 | 8.9% | +2.9% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.7% | +59.3% |
| MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 1 | 44.0% | +33.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416892 | WIPING DEVICE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 15d overdue |
| 19079369 | MOTOR DEVICE | TRUONG, THOMAS | — |
| 19079380 | MOTOR DEVICE | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — |
| 19007537 | WIPER DEVICE | CARTER, MONICA SMITH | — |
| 18706729 | WIPER BLADE | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416892 | WIPING DEVICE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 15d overdue |
| 19079369 | MOTOR DEVICE | TRUONG, THOMAS | — |
| 19079384 | MOTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ROTOR | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | — |
| 19079380 | MOTOR DEVICE | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — |
| 18706729 | WIPER BLADE | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | — |
| 18547881 | ROTOR AND MOTOR | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 4 |
| 3723 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079369 | MOTOR DEVICE | TRUONG, THOMAS | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19079384 | MOTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ROTOR | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19079380 | MOTOR DEVICE | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19007537 | WIPER DEVICE | CARTER, MONICA SMITH | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 01, 2025 |
| 18706729 | WIPER BLADE | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18416892 | WIPING DEVICE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18547881 | ROTOR AND MOTOR | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMITSUBA Corporation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 6 examiners.
Ethan Nguyen Vo has the most, with 2 of MITSUBA Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
